So where can you get it from? It’s obviously all over the BitTorrent network, and is being seeded by thousands of users. However, it also appears to be popping up on download sites such as Softpedia as a trial version. I’m assuming this is the same thing as the leaked download, and as long as you can get your hands on a serial you’re good as gold. Update: I’m not condoning piracy by saying that…there could be multiple ways to get a serial. Hopefully one of those ways will be by purchasing a serial from Nero soon, and I would think that the trial would last past October 1st so that you can legally acquire the serial before expiration.

So what’s going to happen to Nero 8 now? Will Ahead push the release date forward to minimize the amount of damage that the pirated version will do? Only time will tell, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they at least start offering the download-only version a few weeks early.